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shiv is a command line utility for building fully self contained Python zipapps as outlined in PEP 441, but with all their dependencies included.

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Indexed issues: 48

Dominant language: Python
License: BSD-2-Clause
Last GitHub push: May 22, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: No code of conduct
Beginner labels: help wanted
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48 open issues indexed

Issue with Metadata Version Being Appended to Package Version in Shiv Build Open

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linkedin/shiv#278 · Opened Oct 3, 2025
Multiple-interpreter zipapp Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

linkedin/shiv#275 · 1 comment · Opened May 2, 2025
What is the right path for --site-packages? Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 30/100

linkedin/shiv#272 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 12, 2025
[Feature] Include `SHIV_COMPILE_WORKERS` in `environment.json` Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

linkedin/shiv#270 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 17, 2025
Warn user on startup if `requires-python` is not met Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

linkedin/shiv#268 · Opened Dec 18, 2024
Support PEP-723 Style in-line metadata annotated scripts Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 40/100

linkedin/shiv#266 · Opened Nov 25, 2024
unable to run shiv module after manual unzip Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

linkedin/shiv#259 · Opened Oct 30, 2024
DuplicateOptionError when there is { in entry_points.txt file Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

linkedin/shiv#253 · 1 comment · Opened May 21, 2024
Is there a way to show a message to the user during the environment bootstrapping phase? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

linkedin/shiv#246 · 3 comments · Opened Nov 9, 2023
Windows: Bug in Interpreter Path Handling Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

linkedin/shiv#245 · Opened Oct 25, 2023
Shiv with console script prints the __main__ module dictionary to stderr Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

linkedin/shiv#240 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 3, 2023
shiv version 1.0.4 reports the incorrect version of 1.0.3 Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 45/100

linkedin/shiv#239 · Opened Sep 12, 2023
Is asyncio supported? Open

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linkedin/shiv#235 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 15, 2023
Any way to use shiv on read-only filesystem? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

linkedin/shiv#234 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 27, 2023
The shiv of release page should probably be generated on Windows Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

linkedin/shiv#233 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 30, 2023
Error if output path doesn't exist Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

linkedin/shiv#231 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 30, 2023
ConfigParser issue with duplicate option entries Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

linkedin/shiv#225 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 25, 2022
support for packages with a .pth file Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

linkedin/shiv#223 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 1, 2022
Repetition of `site-packages\build\lib\build\lib\...` Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

linkedin/shiv#220 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 22, 2022
Accept pipenv's Pipfile.lock in place of pip's requirements.txt Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

linkedin/shiv#219 · 4 comments · Opened Jun 18, 2022
use the python interpreter (to set the shebang line) when running pip Open

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linkedin/shiv#215 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 22, 2022
Allow shebang with %ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES% in it Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

linkedin/shiv#209 · Opened Feb 9, 2022
Slow run when large pyz file Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

linkedin/shiv#208 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 9, 2022
Name shiv apps with additional info like wheels Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

linkedin/shiv#204 · Opened Jan 8, 2022
different zipapps sharing the same .lock file during extraction due to dots in the filename Open

regression

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

linkedin/shiv#203 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 6, 2022
asyngpg doesn't work due to c-bindings Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

linkedin/shiv#202 · Opened Dec 24, 2021
Can't get shiv to work with pyd files (pythonnet library) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

linkedin/shiv#198 · Opened Nov 20, 2021
Shiv does not fully package namespaced packages Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

linkedin/shiv#191 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 29, 2021
problem with onnxruntime-gpu Open

help wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

linkedin/shiv#190 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 29, 2021
zope.event is not packaged properly when installed together with zope.interface Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

linkedin/shiv#187 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 26, 2021
.shiv artifact filenames too long for Windows Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

linkedin/shiv#181 · 3 comments · Opened May 18, 2021
Incorrect value for sys.argv[0] when built with shiv>=0.5.0 Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

linkedin/shiv#179 · 4 comments · Opened Apr 29, 2021
Cache directory relative to executable path Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

linkedin/shiv#169 · 4 comments · Opened Dec 2, 2020
shiv generates invalid shebang line in git bash (windows/mingw) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

linkedin/shiv#168 · 3 comments · Opened Nov 16, 2020
Error in shipping Django Zipapp Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

linkedin/shiv#162 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 27, 2020
shiv generate bad executable (interpreter = #!/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/python3) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

linkedin/shiv#148 · 4 comments · Opened Jun 3, 2020
use shiv as "transparent" package compressor Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

linkedin/shiv#109 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 30, 2019
Ignore files while archiving the source code Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

linkedin/shiv#103 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 26, 2019
packages / modules inside of a pyz are not used if present in root python path Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

linkedin/shiv#99 · 2 comments · Opened May 24, 2019
tests are now failing on master Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

linkedin/shiv#97 · 2 comments · Opened May 6, 2019
permission denied Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

linkedin/shiv#86 · 9 comments · Opened Nov 9, 2018
Entrypoint resolution issue Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

linkedin/shiv#67 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 12, 2018
Isolate apps from system site packages Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

linkedin/shiv#65 · 7 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 22, 2018
Supporting tab completion when using the REPL Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

linkedin/shiv#44 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 19, 2018
Make shivs output a little more informative Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

linkedin/shiv#42 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 25, 2018
Expose building an archive as an API Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

linkedin/shiv#36 · 4 comments · Opened Jun 7, 2018
Ship the Python interpreter Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

linkedin/shiv#32 · 10 comments · 4 reactions · Opened May 15, 2018
Multiple platform apps? Open

enhancement

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linkedin/shiv#26 · 4 comments · 4 reactions · Opened May 9, 2018

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